Ticket-selling capacity of 12306 website upgraded

Staff members monitor the 12306 website from behind the scenes at the ticket system monitoring center of the China Academy of Railway Sciences in Beijing, Feb 2. [Photo/Xinhua]

According to Zhu Jiansheng, deputy director of the Institute of Computing Technology at the China Academy of Railway Sciences, the daily ticket-selling capacity of 12306 rose from 10 million to 15 million.

Since the release of tickets for the Spring Festival travel rush on Jan 3, 2018, a total of 350 million tickets have been sold. The internet still is a major channel for selling tickets, with 280 million tickets sold online.

On average, 9.37 million tickets are sold every day, exceeding the peak number in 2017 - 9.33 million. The daily ticket-selling peak reached 11.357 million. So far, there have been 10 days with more than 10 million tickets sold.